ocfs2: Avoid livelock in ocfs2_readpage()

When someone writes to an inode, readers accessing the same inode via
ocfs2_readpage() just busyloop trying to get ip_alloc_sem because
do_generic_file_read() looks up the page again and retries ->readpage()
when previous attempt failed with AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. When there are enough
readers, they can occupy all CPUs and in non-preempt kernel the system is
deadlocked because writer holding ip_alloc_sem is never run to release the
semaphore. Fix the problem by making reader block on ip_alloc_sem to break
the busy loop.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
index 4c1ec8f2d8c10131a7af392c7ee8cf5512e7a249..ba3ca1e63b51bebc30938276462354b2a8cd6e49 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
@@ -290,7 +290,15 @@ static int ocfs2_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
        }
 
        if (down_read_trylock(&oi->ip_alloc_sem) == 0) {
+               /*
+                * Unlock the page and cycle ip_alloc_sem so that we don't
+                * busyloop waiting for ip_alloc_sem to unlock
+                */
                ret = AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE;
+               unlock_page(page);
+               unlock = 0;
+               down_read(&oi->ip_alloc_sem);
+               up_read(&oi->ip_alloc_sem);
                goto out_inode_unlock;
        }